, 1887-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.


ton Said he tenderly. as they sat
der5tand what you see in me that
you love me- That's what every
body says" gurgled the ingenious
maiden. Then the silence became SO
deep that you could hear the stars
twinkle.
Two friends are walking along the
street. One of them, pointing to a
house, says: There's a beautiful
plaae, but its enough to make one
sad to look at it." why so?' "On
account of its history; for, despite its
calm and serene surroundings. it was
built upon the groans, tears waiilngs.
and blood of widows, orphans, old
men and struggling women" You
don't say so. Was it built by rail
road monopolist?" ''Oh no; by
dentist"
1t takes the tusks OF $4,000 ele-
plants per year to supply the worlds
piano keys, billiard balls, and knife
handles. But when it comes right
down to business, the ceIluloid fac
tories are obliged to hump themselves
to the fullest extent to turn ont
enough bogus ivory to supply the de
maud. The only reason that ivory is
used at all now~a days, is because
there are not enough celluloid fac
tories to supply the demand, and
they are compelled to u-e the gen
uIue article as substitute
The Portland NeWS is authority for
saying that the Northern Pacific Rail.
road Co. is now holding Snoqualmie
pass, over the Cascade mountains. by
force of arms against the Seattle,
Lake Shore and Eastern road. This
is rather new departure for this
country. In some of the narrow
passes through the State of Colorado
1t was deemed necessary to hold by
force the most desirable mountain
and valley passes. 1t appears that
both roads are struggling forthe
same point, but before they kill of
many they had better see if there Is
not room enough for both
| People over in your country don't
seem to have to pay very high taxes
SAID one Dakota man to another
No we don't How do you account
for it2 There's a whole lot of land
IOwned by Eastern spectators and
when the assessor comes to any of it
he acts just as if a town was stakcd
out on every quarter section and
when he comes to us we sit around
aud groan about the prospects for
poor crops This lets us down easy
on taxes. But isn't there an equali-
zation bond? Oh, yes; but 'taint no
new thing-we make allowance for it,
Powderly says the knights of La
Dor will petition congress TO place
the telegraph in charge of the gov
ernment Senator Edmunds has IA
bill pending to that effect Perhaps
congress will listen to the knights
of Labor next session. Just before
the adjournment of last session the
knights protested against the pas
sage OF the Interstate commerce law,
but no attention was paid to the pro
test. People are now beginning TO
see that it WAS the worst law that
was ever enacted by an American
congress.
Capt E. Biondi, marine surveyor
of Port Townsend, is in the city to
survey and superintend for the un-
derwriters the loading of the Ameri-
can ship ". +. Babcock with wheat
for Great Britain. Heretofore these
vessels have been loaded under the
supervision of marine surveyors
from Portland, but under the instruc
tions of the board of underwriters of
San Francisco each surveyor will at
tend to vessels in his own district.
Capt. Biondi is the marine surveyor
; of the Puget Sound district, and this
is the first vessel of the Ten wheat
ships loaded at Tacoma in which he
has had the opportunity 10 officiate,
Tacoma Ledger.
Many conflicting reports have been
published during the last two or three
years about the capacity of India for
wheat production. 1t has been as
serted, on the one hand, that India
had capacity to produce almost the
worlds supply of wheat, and that
since labor was so extremely cheap in
India, the product of that country
must tend more aud more to drive
wheat from the United States out of
the markets of Europe. On the
other hand it Is asserted that i'll In
dia tho limit of supply was already
reached, and that the appliances of
raising and marketing Indian wheat
were SO rude and SO limited that 1t
was impossible for the product of
that couDtry to depress prices below
the figures quoted during the last
two years
journal Of Commerce: The Port
land Reduction Works are now run
ming successfully and steadily, The
first shipment of bullion-about 20
tons-will go to San Francisco by
to- mOrrow's steamer, for refining.
Before very long the refining process
will be carried on ont here, which Will
mako very large saving. There is
only one thing now wanting in these
works, and that is greater capacity,
for with the additional furnaces very
much more ore can be treated. Ths
expenses of doing this would be very
slightly increased,w d,while profits can
be multiplied. Tho stockholders
may now congratulate themselves
that the leaders in this enterprise
have had sufficient faith and patience
to carry this through in spite Of the
Indifference of many of the stock
holders themselves, and other obsta-
cles whichsoften seem TO be thrown
in the way of any new enterprise in
Oregon.